A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the…

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

— Toots Thielemans

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

“Why will it not work. What magic word made it work. Who is the keeper of that word. What did it profit Him to…

— George Saunders

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time…

— Ambrose Bierce

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

— Wallace Stegner

Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat…

— Albert Brooks

Time.The greatest creator, and the worst destroyer.

— Levi Keely

My only aim is to clock a time that everyone remembers.

— Hima Das

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

— Edward M. Lerner

“Time is, to put it in its most impressive and some might say poncy-sounding form, my domain. I can see things that once happened,…

— Jacqueline Rayner

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway,…

— Patrick MacGill

Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;…

— Anonymous

“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast…

— Katherine Reay

Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec